Unrelated question: is there a way to forward argu...
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Nir
07/04/2019, 10:57 PMUnrelated question: is there a way to forward arguments generically to another function in kotlin?
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streetsofboston
07/04/2019, 11:06 PMYou mean currying?
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Nir
07/04/2019, 11:22 PMNot really no
Nir
07/04/2019, 11:23 PMLike as an example, suppose I have a class that wraps a DataClass
Nir
07/04/2019, 11:23 PMI went to expose the copy function outward
Nir
07/04/2019, 11:23 PM*want
Nir
07/04/2019, 11:23 PMbut that would mean repeating its signature
Nir
07/04/2019, 11:23 PMwhich is a significant amount of boilerplate
Nir
07/04/2019, 11:24 PMI want to be able to write a member function whose signature basically says: i don't care what typse you give me, I accept anything, but whatever you give me I'll just forward to copy
Nir
07/04/2019, 11:25 PMIf you're familiar with C++ you can do
template <class ... Ts> void foo(Ts&& ts);k
karelpeeters
07/05/2019, 9:12 AMNo, there's nothing like that in Kotlin.
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Nir
07/05/2019, 1:01 PMUnfortunate, it solves a real problem
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karelpeeters
07/05/2019, 1:31 PMThere's this feature request: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-15471
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Nir
07/05/2019, 2:38 PMIt's simlar but you'd still have the boilerplate of declaring the dataclass it seems like
Nir
07/05/2019, 2:38 PMI just want a pure forwarding mechanism